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Friday, November 1, 2013

Hope everyone had a swell time trick-or-treating last night. Ours was a success! And by that I mean we went door to door begging for candy and got it :) I had "Dark" Vader, Mario and a monkey in my group :) Halloween was always one of my favorites growing up but nothing can beat Christmas, sorry :)

After receiving awesome feedback from you (thanks!) and our sponsors we've decided to have monthly giveaways! The first Friday of the month we will have multiple giveaways, and with few exceptions that will be it. One comment and you're entered into all of them. So take a minute to read through the great shops, what they're giving away and a little about them.

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The Quilted Castle is excited to give away a set of six half yard cuts from Verna Mosquera's new fabric line Billet Doux (winner's choice!). The full collection can be viewed here:

The Quilted Castle offers thousands of fabrics, with an emphasis on modern fabric, floral / shabby chic and organic fabric. We carry a wide variety of patterns, precuts and quilt kits as well. Stop by and have a look around! While you're there, please use coupon code "vernaQS" for 10% off your order (limit 1 use per customer). Winner:

I made chili and cornbread, and handed out candy- my idea of a great Halloween Night! Thanks for the lovely giveaway.

November 1, 2013 at 8:11 AM

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The Stitch Sanctuary is giving away 40 color coordinated hexagons in bella solids from Moda along with a cute pattern called Hexagon Shuffle. Add a background color and you have a cute fall quilt. Enclosed in a cute drawstring bag.

had a fun night, dressed up as a fairy and handed out candy, halloween isn't just for kids. lol

November 1, 2013 at 9:00 AM

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Critter Patch Fat Quarter Bundle Giveaway

HoneyBeGood is pleased to offer one 6-piece bundle in your choice of colorway - Sky, Autumn or Forest.

Hedgehogs, rabbits, raccoons, foxes and more.Critter Patch, the latest organic quilter's cotton collection byAlyssa Thomas for Clothworks offers up a nice variety of scale, including three prints that can easily be used as blenders. The small oak leaf prints are on a mottled color background that almost shimmers. There's not a stark solid to be found here. The organic cotton coming from Clothworks is quickly becoming among our very favorite. The quality of the cotton and the printing, the supreme softness, and an attractive price point all combine to make Critter Patch a great value.Winner:Nettasaid...

Gathered with family, cuddled the grandbaby while mom handed out candy. So fun! Thanks for sharing.

Established in 1994, Connecting Threads is a family-owned and operated company that exists to inspire, support and supply quilters with everything they need for this wonderful craft. The company strives to ensure that every element of their product offerings are of the highest quality – both in manufacturing and in design. The collection that Connecting Threads is featuring in this giveaway was designed in house by their staff designer, Jenni Calo. The sampler’s prize value is $31.29, but you can buy the fabrics individually for just $5.96/yard.

My daughter says 'dark' vader too, or "black" vader. We went to our church's trunk or treat, which was great! Thanks for the giveaway(s).

November 1, 2013 at 10:43 PM

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Southern Fabric is giving away a $25 gift card. If it were me I'd probably use it on Kate Spain's Bluebird Park :)

Southern Fabric has sold thousands of yards of fabric to thousands of customers throughout the world. Feel free to browse their shop and add them to your bookmarks. Visit often, they are constantly adding the latest in fabrics from Moda, Freespirit, Riley Blake, and Westminster.Winner:Kaelyn Angelfootsaid...

Thanks to you an your sponsors for the wonderful give away! I have a cold so I spent it hiding inside (especially since it was cold and rainy around here) and sewing on my many WIP's.

November 2, 2013 at 6:20 AM

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Congrats to all the winners!! Come back the first Friday in December for another chance to win :)

My 2 year old did her first door to door trick or treating. She loved it and was amazed by all of the people that just handed her candy. She was such a proud little red crayon. Her brother (6 mo.) was not so impressed with his penguin costume. :)

We went trick-or-treating and had a great time. My poor 7 year old son got the scare of his life at one house when a tricky masked teenager came running out of a hidden door just as he was stepping away from the path to the doorway. The fear knocked him off his feet. LOL! Thanks for the great give-away!

My Storm Trooper, Gorilla, White Queen (from Alice in WOnderland), husband and I piled into the car and travelled the countryside collecting candy and visiting the neighbors ;)But I ALWAYS leave a bowl of candy at our front door for the kiddos that stop by our house when we're gone!

Thanks for the giveaway ladies! Trick or Treat was a blast -- with 3 of the 8 grandkids ages 3 to 15! We ate pizza, candy, donuts and went trick or treating in the neighborhood. Good family time. Have a wonderful day!

We had a 2 hour parent evening at school seeing all the subject teachers for my teenage daughter! We did have time to see a few people at our door once we got home though. Thanks for great giveaways.ks(dot)eyles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

Trick-or-treating was delayed until tonight because of bad weather, so last night ended up being just a normal night, with our Halloween activities put off until today. Thank you for the chance to win one of these amazing giveaways!

What a great giveaway! Thank you for the opportunity. Our teen did not want to go out and about this year, so we stayed home (only had 2 groups of Trick-or-Treaters - sad!) - and watched "The Raven" and "Interview with a Vampire."

My Halloween night was a very calm one. The weather kept many trick-or-treaters from going door to door. None of my Nieces or nephews live near me so I handed out LARGE handfuls of candy to the kids braving the chance of rain (it had been raining all day...seemed to stop just in time, but the sky still seemed pretty threatening). It was a fun and relaxed halloween night! Thanks for the chance at one of these awesome giveaways!

I got to spend my Halloween in bed sleeping. All my work at work and home just caught up with me and I needed SLEEP! My ninety one year old dad assumed he was going to be answering the door and I made sure he had plenty of goodies for the goblins and such, but alas! No one came to the door. I think everyone is thinking safer Halloween activities and having private parties.Thank you for an opportunity to win goodies. You and your sponsors are always so generous!

oh my goodness! we had an epic puking incident before we even left the house! im so glad my daughter's timing allowed that nasty trick to happen at home and not someone's doorstep! regardless, she went out, for 10 minutes...dad took her home...and 20 minutes after that...my son and i got rained out. lots of rain...but we still got enough candy to bring smiles to the kids...we snuggled on the couch and watched Mariposa before bed. gonna check out some of these shops now...im stuck at work until 5pm but my boss is out of the office!

Our Halloween was very quiet, except for the wind howling around the windows! Bad weather had most cities in our area postponing Halloween festivities until tonight. We still won't have folks come here - our house is deep in the woods off the street, and I guess it's too creepy in the dark!! Can't wait to see my granddaughters all dressed up as Merida (from Brave) and her little brother bear, though! thanks for the chance to win!!

We took our little kids out trick or treating, while our older girls stayed home and gave out candy. My 16-year-old went to a party and watched 'When a Stranger Calls' and had to sleep upstairs on the couch because she was so freaked out! Ha!

No kids in our neighborhood to go door to door. We took an elderly friend to dinner. I usually hate to go anywhere Halloween night, don't want to be out driving with all the kids out. Thanks for chances at some great things.

What an awesome giveaway! I passed out candy to the cute little trick-or-treaters last night (although we had fewer kids come by than last year). I also made chili for our football tailgate this weekend!

What great giveaways! Last night, our family actually celebrated "Reformation Day" - the anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the church door on Oct. 31, 1517. Definitely a "nerdy" holiday, but we dressed up, went to a party, played games and won plenty of candy. :)

I went to the trunk and treat at our church. I wrapped leftover strips from a strip quilt I had made, added my machine cover as an apron and went as a quilt. The grownups got it, the kids, not so much. But then I get confused with all the female Disney characters. Then my grandson asked if I knew what he was. After informing me he was Bumblebee he asked if he was the old one or the new one!!!???!!! I said old, I was wrong! Of course.After that quick, intense candy disposal, I went home, answered the door to a few more until the grandkids came over. Once they left, we turned out all the lights and went to bed. On to Thanksgiving and the holiday season!

We had a great Halloween. It was pretty epic...we were all different characters from Harry Potter...and it was a lot of fun making the costumes, but I'm also glad it's over. Thanks for all the awesome giveaways!

Nothing much, LOL! We do not celebrate Halloween much here! I had to grade some tests and work on a thread experiment on the sewing machine... Not so fun and more fun!Estheresthersipatchandquilt at yahoo dot comipatchandquilt dot wordpress dot com

I LOVE Halloween! We stayed home to hand out popcorn to the trick or treaters. Unfortunately it drizzled on and off so it was a slow Halloween night. Only, maybe 50 kids came by. I hope next year is better, I missed the costumes the crowds of little kids in the street and all the happy faces. Hope you all had a great Halloween! ;-> Toni Anne

Our biggest group of trick or treaters arrived on a flat bed trailer pulled by a tractor which promptly stalled in our driveway (we live at the end of a longish road). LOL! After a 15 minute plug in to our battery charger they were back on their happy way.

We had perfect cool fall weather for Halloween. I handed out candy to the cutest little people for 2-½ hours. I just love that! My granddaughters were 6 hours away, and I got photos of them later from my daughter, so that was fun. Thanks for the giveaways! Awesome! Great websites, too.

We didn't end up doing anything Halloween night since my oldest fell asleep early and the other is too young to care but during the day we went to my little boy's school costume parade and carnival. It was wonderful to see him interacting with his "classmates" (he's just 20 months old)!

Halloween was fun! I went to my friends house and helped her pass out candy with her little 4 month old baby while her husband took her 3 year old around the neighborhood. The weather was great, and we had a blast! Next year I will have my own little one, so I enjoyed seeing all the babies going around!

We live in the country, and our driveway is a quarter mile long, so we never get any trick-or-treaters. I miss life in the suburbs on Halloween--we were reminiscing about how our neighbors always brought their cute kids over to show us their costumes. Plus, no excuse for buying Halloween candy when we know we won't be giving any away!

Tricks-ur-treating went very well, a little soggy here in the Midwest but we like to say "Whatever it takes to get the candy" right?? A good time was had by all! as I sit here finishing my 6th peanut butter cup ; ) Ahhh life is good!

What an awesome giveaway, thanks for the chance! My Halloween was rather quiet, I was out on the countryside with my kids during the day, so they were so completely worn out in the evening that they fell asleep round 7 p.m., no tricking nor treating then. Next year again!

Grandma got to hand out candy while Grandpa and Dad took Dracula and Spiderman Trick or Treating. The littles ones are the cutest. One wee guy who called out 'Twick or Tweet" just couldn't wait and dug into his bag to see what had been added. It was a hit - 'Look Daddy. I got candy!' So precious.

Our 14 year old and her friends went trick-or-treating, but it was rainy and windy - not the greatest of nights. But when you put 9 friends together it only means fun! Many thanks to you and your sponsors!ellen(at)myerly(dot)net

We gave out over 200 little bags of candy in less than 2 hours. There was even a hayride in our neighborhood. Aww…the advantages of living in Florida. My 18 month old red haired grand daughter was dressed as Pebbles from the Flintstones, and my 8 year old grandson was dressed as one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I couldn't ask for a better Halloween.

Another great Halloween, did a little of both handing out candy and walking the neighborhood with the kids Traditional chicken parm dinner at my house afterwards. Great night with family and friends. Thanks for the chance.

We had a drizzly night, so many of our Trick-or-Treaters stayed home, but we did get a few die-hards! Unfortunately, this left us with too many leftover treats in the house!!! Thanks for the great giveaway chance!

I live just slightly left of the middle of nowhere so we didn't get very many trick or treaters. Unfortunately, that left us with too much candy for chubby old people to deal with. I've got to swear off Kit Kats for breakfast.I've purchased from Southern Fabrics and Connecting Threads many times, but was delighted to discover the great fabric selections at The Quilted Castle and Honey Be Good.

Very low key Halloween here. This year we moved to the country and there are no little ones even living nearby. Very sad. Very, very sad. Next year I'll have to think of some way to get to see those little cuties all dressed up. Hmmmm.....

We had a blast!! The weather was wonderful and the kids were well! We all spent the week before sick so we were all so thankful just to feel like ourselves again! The kids got so much candy which is a good thing to them! I wish we could start trick or treating a little earlier because it stinks that the kids go out and get all this candy and then it's time to go home to get ready for bed because of school the next day but ok guess that's just the name of the game!Thank you for the chance at your giveaways, Jessicajuceyj03@gmail.com

I've noticed that fewer and fewer trick or treaters are coming around these days. I ALWAYS have to have some treats for them just in case. We had more this year and it's always fun to see the great ideas that they come with to "scare" us. Great giveaway and thanks for sharing.

As is always the case, we had no trick-or-treaters at all! We live in a remote area so there is just a Halloween party at the Grange Hall. We've been here for 22 years now and nary a trick-or-treater have we seen. :)

Well, I thought I had a class to teach so I had my hubby drop me off at Joann's. After an hour of shopping (killing time till class started) I go to the computer to sign and print the class papers it showed the class canceled... :( So I had to wait till 7:30 for my hubby to get out of his class to pick me up and take me home. I killed time at Stbx knitting a sweater (NEVER leave home with out a project!) Then we went home and watched The Voice we recorded. Pretty tame night.

Oh wow - it was so much fun visiting your wonderful sponsors. Lots of eye candy - especially billet doux! Thank you! I dressed as a raven for work and then came home and took a little turkey trick-or-treating. Then we came home and over-indulged a bit on chocolate. Thanks for the fun question and for your inspiring blog.

Fabulous give away. Love all the products offered. Was at work, but seeing how I work in an Outlet where the kids trick or treat from 5pm to 7pm, handed out candy to about 800 kids. It was so fun seeing all the little kids costumes.